Nailed it.
How has the last 10 years gone for you?
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Nailed it.
Soldato
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Much better than expected, to be honest.
At 18 I was in a dead end job (scored my first 'proper' job with Geek Squad at 19) and in a lot of crippling debt.
I usually spent all of my spare money in the pub etc.
Fast forward 10 years, I have a lovely daughter, a successful business and I can actually start to plan a future. It's a lot less bleak.
No idea what I'll be doing in 10 years from now, though!
At 18 I was in a dead end job (scored my first 'proper' job with Geek Squad at 19) and in a lot of crippling debt.
I usually spent all of my spare money in the pub etc.
Fast forward 10 years, I have a lovely daughter, a successful business and I can actually start to plan a future. It's a lot less bleak.
No idea what I'll be doing in 10 years from now, though!
Yup! There's too much to list without sounding ridiculously smug.
I'm now married to the girl that I started going out with in 2007 and we have a child imminently arriving.
Never owned a car with a roof.
Only regret is not achieving 10,000 posts on OcUK in a decade.
age 27 - 37 - major moments
previously in 2004 - immigrated to London from South Africa with wife
2007 - Middle brother calls to say eldest (by 18 years) brother is in a coma after flying back from Ireland on business and passed out at baggage reclaim and that things aren't looking good and to seriously think about coming back to South Africa - at his bedside (+ mom/dad/middle brother) when he passed after an hour of landing - sad times (the feels for my folks)
2008 - 3rd IT job in UK 1st line (happy with this one as people are awesome and career progression opportunities)
2011 - Move from 2nd line to development department - train up as a BA
2012 - As a BA fall into software testing role more and more
2013 - Overheard wife romantically talking to one of her girlfriends she recently met whilst in Jersey for business and things rapidly materialised she fancied her. I helped her move out 1 month later - hard times - she soon after moves to Jersey living with girlfriend
2014 - Enjoyed the single life for 3 months then met an awesome/normal woman off Tinder (it can happen) - 6 months later she moved in (still renting)
2015 - New job at sister Finance company as a software tester - Reading Festival with girlfriend
2016 - Proposed (and I feel I want kids with this one)
2017 - Reading Festival with grilfriend - getting married in 9 days time
Looking back the last 10 years, some big lows but mostly big highs - I'm hoping the next 10 years brings further career progression, continued health, kids and own our own home
previously in 2004 - immigrated to London from South Africa with wife
2007 - Middle brother calls to say eldest (by 18 years) brother is in a coma after flying back from Ireland on business and passed out at baggage reclaim and that things aren't looking good and to seriously think about coming back to South Africa - at his bedside (+ mom/dad/middle brother) when he passed after an hour of landing - sad times (the feels for my folks)
2008 - 3rd IT job in UK 1st line (happy with this one as people are awesome and career progression opportunities)
2011 - Move from 2nd line to development department - train up as a BA
2012 - As a BA fall into software testing role more and more
2013 - Overheard wife romantically talking to one of her girlfriends she recently met whilst in Jersey for business and things rapidly materialised she fancied her. I helped her move out 1 month later - hard times - she soon after moves to Jersey living with girlfriend
2014 - Enjoyed the single life for 3 months then met an awesome/normal woman off Tinder (it can happen) - 6 months later she moved in (still renting)
2015 - New job at sister Finance company as a software tester - Reading Festival with girlfriend
2016 - Proposed (and I feel I want kids with this one)
2017 - Reading Festival with grilfriend - getting married in 9 days time
Looking back the last 10 years, some big lows but mostly big highs - I'm hoping the next 10 years brings further career progression, continued health, kids and own our own home
, new job, house, cancer, kid, married, new job and hopefully within the next few days another new job.
Soldato
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Hmmm .... ten years ago wasn't good, heading into second nervous breakdown and had to work from home for six months for medical reasons.
Then started a new role in the same company which has been a rollercoaster of good things and bad things (normally coinciding with good and bad management). Been doing this for ~8 years now.
On the upside did start going abroad again on holiday which has been fun if expensive.
Then started a new role in the same company which has been a rollercoaster of good things and bad things (normally coinciding with good and bad management). Been doing this for ~8 years now.
On the upside did start going abroad again on holiday which has been fun if expensive.
Soldato
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Fair play to the OP, too many people get stuck in a job they hate because they can't afford to get out or are too worried about making a change. I'm in the process of quitting my job as a solicitor because I hate it and have finally realised at the age of 30 that I made a mistake in doing law at uni. I'm now going back to university (albeit distance learning) and intend to get into sport, either football or golf, the two things in life I absolutely love. Sure, law pays well, but I'd rather earn less and love my job.
Soldato
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Boring, uneventful, quick, depressing, waste of time. Just about sums it up,bit like the previous 10 to that and no doubt like the next 10. Such is life.
2007 - Wife and one year son. Good job which I enjoyed.
2010 - Wife persuades me to buy house at upper limit of affordability. On the day contracts are due to be exchanged she tells me she's leaving. Soon after I find out she been shagging one of her colleagues for months.
2011 - Divorce comes through. In the meantime I buy myself a house. Ex is renting and blames me for the break-up. Go figure.
Mid 2011 - Meet an amazing woman on Plenty of Fish. She has a daughter 3 months older than my son - and the kids know each other! Meshing the families runs like clockwork.
2014 - Marry the woman and formally adopt my daughter.
Amazingly, I hear from someone at school that my ex is saying that my new wife (who I met a year after my wife left and, due to the nosy people at the school, everyone knows this) is the reason that I left my ex?!
2017 - Good house, great family, wonderful relationship and things are good. Oh, except for the fact that mt daughter is just entering puberty. Maybe I should move out and find a nice cave in the Highlands for a couple of years.
2010 - Wife persuades me to buy house at upper limit of affordability. On the day contracts are due to be exchanged she tells me she's leaving. Soon after I find out she been shagging one of her colleagues for months.
2011 - Divorce comes through. In the meantime I buy myself a house. Ex is renting and blames me for the break-up. Go figure.
Mid 2011 - Meet an amazing woman on Plenty of Fish. She has a daughter 3 months older than my son - and the kids know each other! Meshing the families runs like clockwork.
2014 - Marry the woman and formally adopt my daughter.
Amazingly, I hear from someone at school that my ex is saying that my new wife (who I met a year after my wife left and, due to the nosy people at the school, everyone knows this) is the reason that I left my ex?!
2017 - Good house, great family, wonderful relationship and things are good. Oh, except for the fact that mt daughter is just entering puberty. Maybe I should move out and find a nice cave in the Highlands for a couple of years.
Busy, relatively successful and varied, I've grown as a person a hell of a lot in that time, i've gone from a slightly naive quiet almost shy young buck with little life skills to the, confident sarcastic slightly grumpy jock that i am today, experienced a hell of a lot and been all over the place, I feel this chapter in life is nearing its end though, i long for a more stable life with less stress and less pressure and more time to enjoy life, I guess what i've learned in the last ten years is that money is much less important than friends family, the time you spend with them and happiness, I've missed so much back home over the last decade and i just feel its time to regain that balance in life.
Hmmmmm, ok.
2007 - I was 24 and had just started a new job in Manchester with an Investment Bank, pretty low salary despite having 5 years experience, data entry job. I rented a 2 bed flat in Eccles with my girlfriend at the time (soon to become wife). Drove a Citroen C2. Enjoyed movies, computer games, the usual stuff.
2017 - I work for a Fund Manager now in Northwich, Cheshire, salary is double what it was in 2007. I work on various projects and have project management and investment qualifications. Bought a 2 bed house in Manchester 5 years ago. sold it last year and have a nice 4 bed in Cheshire now. Drive a BMW 320d Touring. Most importantly though I divorced my useless (ex)wife and met the most amazing woman ever. I've been blessed with two gorgeous, intelligent and funny daughters, and have been married again for 2 years.
Funnily enough I was thinking just yesterday about how lucky I've been, and thankful for what I have now.
And I still enjoy movies, computer games, the usual stuff
2007 - I was 24 and had just started a new job in Manchester with an Investment Bank, pretty low salary despite having 5 years experience, data entry job. I rented a 2 bed flat in Eccles with my girlfriend at the time (soon to become wife). Drove a Citroen C2. Enjoyed movies, computer games, the usual stuff.
2017 - I work for a Fund Manager now in Northwich, Cheshire, salary is double what it was in 2007. I work on various projects and have project management and investment qualifications. Bought a 2 bed house in Manchester 5 years ago. sold it last year and have a nice 4 bed in Cheshire now. Drive a BMW 320d Touring. Most importantly though I divorced my useless (ex)wife and met the most amazing woman ever. I've been blessed with two gorgeous, intelligent and funny daughters, and have been married again for 2 years.
Funnily enough I was thinking just yesterday about how lucky I've been, and thankful for what I have now.
And I still enjoy movies, computer games, the usual stuff
Nearly ten years ago I started my own business....Was going really well then we lost a major contract (Firm took the work inhouse so they could get a better valuation for sale) I had to lay off 18 drivers. Within 2 months I was back up and running with 1 driver. 12 months later 10 drivers and now another 5 yrs down the line I have nearly 40. It's been a battle, But we are getting there now. Currently working towards setting the business up so we can have some time off. I've had 2 long weekends since 2011. So am really due a proper holiday.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the last 10 years.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the last 10 years.
Well done dude. You deserve the success.
Thank you.
Sometimes I wonder why I do it. I've just spent 7 weeks away form home sorting out issues with some of our kent and London rounds. 2 weeks at home and I'm back down again sorting out more issues.
But I have a couple of hundred people relying on me to do my job so they can do theirs and pay their mortgages...I don't want to fail them....